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A like Artist gathers the work of some of the most exciting emerging artists, showcasing their work and vision. Working with a vast array of different mediums, from painting to installation, photography to performance, video, and sculpture, the book offers a unique insight into the artists' work and creative process. All the artists presented in the book have been previously featured on Al-Tiba9's online platform, and all their interviews can be accessed online for a more in-depth experience of their work.
This exceptional book, in a limited edition of 500 copies, is designed to provide each artist with a unique chance to present their work. At the same time, collectors and art lovers alike will have the chance to discover the most promising up-and-coming artists. This collectible art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of an artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
Art Collector Book “A like Artist” gathers the work of some of the most exciting emerging artists, showcasing their work and vision. This exceptional book, in a limited edition of 500 copies, is designed to provide each artist with a unique chance to present their work. At the same time, collectors and art lovers alike will have the chance to discover the most promising up-and-coming artists. This collectible art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of an artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.
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FEATURED ARTISTS
Aggelina Tsoumani, Bobby Kim Ling Chen, Chary Hilu, Danquis Johnson, Desirée Jung, Ettore Albert, Felipe Farme D'Amoed, Gerhard Petzl, Haewon Jang, Hamida Ouassini, Hanieh Jalali (Honey), Imelda Wei Ding Lo - Fortunus Games, Inge Prins van Wijngaarden, Ivan Kanchev, Ivan Suvanjieff, Joas Nebe, Johannes Boekhoudt, Joshua Wells, Judit Nagy L., Kateryna Brovkova, Kiki Klimt, Lena Silva, Leslie García Blanco, Lorette C. Luzajic, Mariaceleste Arena, Mariken Heijwegen, Maximilian Girardi, Nastassia Bas, Nestan Mikeladze, Nikki Gal, Nuria González Alcaide, Pamela Chrabieh, Patricia Rabbiosi, Paulina Bilska, RUNA (aka Rute Norte), Sangeeta Singh, Sarah Buckius, Shee Gomes, Shilowska Pretto, Siham El Kandoussi, Silvia Felizia, Sirui Yang, Stanislav Bojankov, Uzomah Ugwu, ZULFA.
Leslie García Blanco is a visual artist of Cuban origin who lives between Cuba and Switzerland. His work is characterized by the versatility of his staging as well as his constant concern for the poetics of everyday life. García Blanco finds reasons and procedures that displaces with apparent naturalness and spontaneity to the field of visual arts.
Bobby is an “end-to-end” digital artist with specialised skills in image/video processing, digital generative and derivatives arts, etc. Bobby believes the introduction of digital science into arts would eventually bring about a paradigm switch as to how arts would be appreciated in the future, particularly in its form and related presentation.
RUNA (aka Rute Norte) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She is now finishing a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon. Her paintings can either refer to a memory, or be simple ideas and concepts that pass at the moment. As an artist-traveller, she writes travel chronicles accompanied by photos and tells a story through this trimediality: text, photography, and painting.
Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.
Lena Silva is a contemporary, figurative, classical artist, of Portuguese origin, and she has resided most of her life in the United Kingdom. She enjoys working with a variety of mediums, from pencil graphite to pastels and watercolours. However, her favourite medium to work with is oils because of their texture, vibrant colours, and flexibility of shading and blending.
Silvia Felizia is a contemporary abstract artist born in Argentina and currently living in the USA. Her work talks about the presence - and the power - of art made by women, and rethink how women see their lives in the current world and keep growing no matter what society and stereotypes dictate, bringing a different dimension of liberation and knowledge.
Artist and teacher of fine arts from Argentina, Chary Hilu is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Argentina. Her works are conceived as a response to the sensations, feelings, and experiences evoked by extreme situations. They adapt to the context and are changed according to the context. They acquire an expressive power that results from the combination of technique and emotion.
ZULFA is an artist whose works investigates and questions the complexities of inextricably intertwined relationships of religion, culture, and politics and their influences on social structures. As an individual who stands at the crossroads of multiple minority groups, he aims to use his art to amplify their voices and concerns and create contemporary discourse.
Imelda Wei Ding Lo is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, podcaster, and game developer who is passionate about environmentalism, technology, alternative health, and above all, story-telling mediums that explore character psychology and development. Her latest project is the graphic novel “The Book of Joel”.
Every technical and philosophical facet of Lorette C. Luzajic’s art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.
Boekhoudt is an exclusive self-taught fine art painter with more than twenty years of experience. His original modern expressionist artwork is indeed one of a kind since Boekhoudt does not create nor authorize any reproductions of his artwork. He has an exceptionally loyal clientele since they can privately own original museum quality artwork that will never be displayed on a commercial level.
Nestan Mikeladze (b. 1986) is a Georgian-born artist based in Tbilisi. She recently became a feminist, and in her work, you will see how a woman emerges from being blended and uncertain to bold and defined. She uses thin oil paints not only to convey transparency but also because it is an unpredictable medium. Her work has been featured in several art magazines and on Contemporary Art Collectors' platforms.
Judit Nagy L. is a Slovak artist, currently living and working in Switzerland. She invented her method in 2015 and called it "IVVArt - In Vino Veritas Art Method ©". Judit is a mixed media painter who paints with real wine and soil samples from vineyards, to create portraits of selected wines. Judit likes to work with found objects and transform them into high-quality, recyclable artworks, which she calls ReMixArt.
Maximilian Girardi is a young Italian artist. He loves colorful drawings and solid colors because he thinks they give positive feelings and help him to be happy. He is also a lover of patterns, which he draws by hand to convey memories and give character to the works. The artist thinks that "ha.nds," in addition to aesthetics, can communicate messages, emotions, and memories.
Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.
Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Art Magazine Haewon Jang is a Korean artist currently based in New York. She pursues contemporary and indie art, and her artworks stem from her prior experiences, feelings, and philosophical thoughts around life and death. Her illustrations demonstrate the differential effects of emotions throughout an individual’s stages of life, including suffering and celebrations.
Honey is an Iranian artist currently residing in Calgary, Canada. She focuses on art, painting, graphic design, photography, installation, digital painting, poem, and theatre, as well as artistic production and cultural promotion. She explores memories, good and bad, through creative multimedia artworks. She wants to show stories about people, humanity, suffering, true love, and real life all over the world.
Katerina Brovkova is an artist, illustrator, and clothing designer from Ukraine. She believes that art can communicate global values and influence the design and fashion industry. And, of course, art is the best way to convey meaning, special feelings, and vibrations through art. All her work is created when she is happy and full of energy, so all this energy of love and growth is transmuted into her art.
Sangeeta Singh is an experienced artist with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry for over three decades. Over the years, she has worked on developing her skills in both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her journey as a professional artist started with exploration and experimentation with different media and then with educating herself through formal and informal means.
Siham El Kandoussi is a self-taught abstract painter and amateur photographer. Born and raised in Morocco in 1980, she is now living in Kuwait since 2008. Siham is inspired by the avant-garde abstract expressionist artists, the enriched and omnifarious culture of her homeland, and the different cultures and colors of the cities where she dwells her soul in.
Nikki Gal is an American-born digital artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Gal expresses the importance of mental health awareness throughout her pieces, giving those a meaningful yet strong take-away. Her latest series, STATE OF A WOMAN, is a series of digital pieces that construct a firm image of different mental health disorders. Gal's mission is to not only make mental health a topic of conversation but a topic of conversation through creativity.
Desirée Jung is a Brazilian artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found on her website.
Joshua Wells is a British artist, born in Chatham, Kent, in 1998. He is an expressionist artist that bases his practice around the absence of control. His research-based practice has the born motive of filling the blurred line between reality and delusion, conforming with the ground-breaking research into communication patterns and their correlation to psychology.
Mariken Heijwegen is a visual artist, stylist and art teacher based in Rotterdam. She uses painting to make self-portraits and put her emotions on the canvas. Her paintings reflect feelings like panic attacks, fear, anxiety, insecurities, and all mixed emotions. She uses art as a form of therapy for mental illnesses and to shed a light on such a common theme.
Ivan Kanchev is a Bulgarian artist and ceramist. His latest series, Man, where are you?, concerns current problems of the present existence. Everything is fragmented in ecological, social, and political terms. The earth is "notched". The man is small and naked, confused and defenseless, represented with outstretched arms and legs apart - in a poetic and artistic crucifix. It is an object-subject, center and periphery, meaning and time.
Pamela Chrabieh is a Lebanese-Canadian visual artist, researcher, activist, writer, and consultant with 20+ years of international experience. At the crossroads of Western Asian iconography, calligraphy, and digital arts, Chrabieh’s artworks express pieces of wounded memories by sublimating reality. Each icon is an experience of the sublime that lurks within and beyond the ambiguity of traumas in a quest for the healing of life.
Stanislav Bojankov is a Bulgarian artist, specialized in Painting, Drawing and Graphic Design. His work analyzes the Roots, classic traditions and philosophies. Through his work, he wishes to contribute to these local and global cultural traditions and simultaneously create new expectations within the modern individual’s universal perceptions, transforming them into widely understood signs, symbols, and codes.
Nuria Gonzalez Alcaide (Barcelona, 1995) is a self-taught visual abstract artist. Her abstract painting draws inspiration from thoughts and life situations, emotions and feelings that she experiences and renders with brush strokes. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Vic, Madrid, and London. She is currently based in Indonesia.
Sarah Buckius (b. 1979 Urbana, IL) is an artist and educator living in Northern California. Her recent creative work is situated at the cross-section of women, technology, and lens-based media. In her latest series, Hidden Mothers: Re-& Enactment of Emotional Labor, Buckius proposes that the emotional labor mothers perform actually reveals much about their identity – their ingenuity, inventiveness, commitment, and emotional labor and strength.
Paulina Bilska is a Polish artist, currently based in Italy. Her first experience as an artist started in 2020, during the pandemic when she felt the need to express her feelings through something. atural patterns, colors, lights, shadows, and flower bouquets are her main source of inspiration. They are the ideal combination of vibes where you can try to find your own.
Aggelina Tsoumani is a Greek artist, tattoo artist and graphic designer. Her latest project is about the relationship between the human body and colour patterns through printmaking. She started examining this relationship when she noticed the diversity of colours reflected via different printmaking techniques. Her interest focuses on the creation of printmaking ‘textiles’.
Ivan Suvanjieff is a multifaceted artist and painter. His most recent solo exhibition, "Quanta Dada", was created by the Monaco Arts Association in partnership with the City of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and held on the French Riviera in June of 2021. He is also an activist, a musical and literary icon, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has been nominated 17 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.
Through the representation of otherworldly creatures and realms, Shilowska found a doorway to constantly reinventing her reality. A way of defying the paradigms set upon her regarding ethnicity, place of birth, gender, physical appearance, social status, and age. Through her work, the artist looks forward to the spectator to dream and engage with the message in their own unique way.
Kiki Klimt is a contemporary painter based in Ljubljana. Over the years, she experimented on conceptual art, photography, performance, installation, illustration, and design. In the last years, she is returning to the tradition of painting, developing a unique way of painting based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science, and her own study and experience.
Mariaceleste Arena is a Sicilian drawer and painter who works with both traditional and digital techniques. She created several urban regeneration works, collaborations with non-profit associations, published in various magazines and catalogs, exhibited in various art venues. For her, art must always be innovative: it is, in fact, a mental process, and therefore it is always in constant transformation.
Sheila Gomes is a Brazilian artist and designer. For Sheila, art transcends cultures, concepts, ideals, and time itself, connecting us with all that we are. Her purpose is to unveil the new and expand this connection. She has been showcasing her work in a variety of exhibitions, collaborations, and projects, with curated works featuring international books and magazines.
Joas Nebe is a self-taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. By turning his film cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes that "Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer."
Hamida Ouassini’s work is a questioning on the perception of a world which puts us at a distance from what we think and we see. It’s the perception of harmony emerging from the apparent disorganization of the whole; perception of a structure shaping chaos. Curve and straight lines breathe, then doze off. And the spectator cannot contain this curious need to tell a story.
Inge’s sources of inspiration are nature, human behavior, and the properties of materials. Sustainability is at the heart of everything she makes. She stands for a conscious approach to the environment, which is why she only works with environmentally friendly or recycled materials.

Ettore Albert’s art is meant to inspire and awaken, question everything, bend the rules, break laws, dissolve the solid and connect the strange. It should animate to play. His art should point out the illusory nature of our transient environment. It's a realization that frees you, that makes you realize that serious is only what you take seriously.